Word: linkmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called the Royal Coburg when it opened in 1818, the playhouse on the south side of the Thames was renamed the Royal Victoria when Victoria became heiress presumptive to the throne. A century ago it was a scene of splendor, with linkmen lighting theatergoers - including the young Victoria and her mother - across the undrained Lambeth marshes, where footpads lurked. There played the great Kean and the great Macready, while society folk goggled at the heavy curtain of looking glass that later had to be ripped out because its weight was pulling down the roof. Bits of the curtain served...
...unforeseen scholastic jolt enabled Yale's Freshman golf team to upset the previously unbeaten Yardling linkmen 5 to 4 yesterday at Belmont Country Club. But the Eli linkmen were only the vanguard of a Bulldog Cub invasion, for Yale's Freshman track and tennis teams are in town today on the Crimson racqueteers and runners...
Three undefeated Yardlings, Tyke Wilcox, Captain Foster Boardman and George Nye, lead the linkmen into battle. Also representing Coach Don Peddle's squad, which has waded successfully through six straight contests, are Jim Hubbell, Dan Friedman, and Bill Rowe. Yale has lost only once, drooping a 5 to 4 decision to Princeton's unbeaten Freshmen...